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Course Outline Microsoft Word 2016 30 Aug 2017

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Course OutlineMicrosoft Word 2016

30 Aug 2017

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Contents

1. Course Objective

2. Pre-Assessment

3. Exercises, Quizzes, Flashcards & Glossary

Number of Questions

4. Expert Instructor-Led Training

5. ADA Compliant & JAWS Compatible Platform

6. State of the Art Educator Tools

7. Award Winning Learning Platform (LMS)

8. Chapter & Lessons

Syllabus

Chapter 1: Taking Your First Steps with Word

Chapter 2: Diving Into Document Creation

Chapter 3: Working with Document Style and Content

Chapter 4: Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Using the Clipboard

Chapter 5: Cleaning Up with AutoCorrect and AutoFormat

Chapter 6: Building Tables, Charts, and SmartArt to Show Data and Process

Chapter 7: Adding Pictures and WordArt to Highlight Information

Chapter 8: Adding Drop Caps, Text Boxes, Shapes, Symbols, and Equations

Chapter 9: Setting Up the Document with Sections, Headers/Footers, and Columns

Chapter 10: Changing Other Page Features

Chapter 11: Identifying the Contents and Terms in Your Document: TOCs, Captions, and Indexing

Chapter 12: Data Documents and Mail Merge

Chapter 13: Managing Document Security, Comments, and Tracked Changes

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Chapter 14: Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon

Chapter 15: Word Options and Settings

Chapter 16: Macros: Recording, Editing, and Using Them

Chapter 17: Appendix A

Videos and How To

9. Practice Test

Here's what you get

Features

10. Performance Based Labs

Lab Tasks

Here's what you get

11. Post-Assessment

1. Course Objective

Gain hands-on expertise in Microsoft 77-725 exam with Microsoft Word 2016 course and performance based labs. Performance based labs are versatile - labs simulate real-world, hardware, software & command line interface environments and can be mapped to any text-book, course & training. The Microsoft Word 2016 course covers all the objectives of Microsoft Word 2016 exam and provides the professionals, the basic knowledge of the Word environment; the skill to deliver tasks without any help; and helps the candidates in demonstrating the correct application of the basic features of Word 2016.

2. Pre-Assessment

Pre-Assessment lets you identify the areas for improvement before you start your prep. It determines what students know about a topic before it is taught and identifies areas for improvement with question assessment before beginning the course.

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3. Exercises, Quizzes, Flashcards & Glossary

Each lesson comes with Exercises, Flashcards & Quizzes. There is no limit to the number of times learners can attempt these. Exercises come with detailed remediation, which ensures that learners are confident on the topic before proceeding. Flashcards help master the key concepts while Glossary defines the key terms.

Number of Questions

800

Over 800 unique questions including pre-assessment, quizzes, exercises, and post assessment.

4. Expert Instructor-Led Training

uCertify uses the content from the finest publishers and only the IT industry’s finest instructors. They have a minimum of 15 years real-world experience and are subject matter experts in their fields. Unlike a live class, you can study at your own pace. This creates a personal learning experience and gives you all the benefit of hands-on training with the flexibility of doing it around your schedule 24/7.

5. ADA Compliant & JAWS Compatible Platform

uCertify course and labs are ADA (Americans with Disability Act ) compliant. It is now more accessible to students with features such as:

Change the font, size, and color of the content of the course

Text-to-speech, reads the text into spoken words

Interactive videos, how-tos videos come with transcripts and voice-over

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Interactive transcripts, each word is clickable. Students can clip a specific part of the video by clicking on a word or a portion of the text.

JAWS (Job Access with Speech) is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows that reads the screen either with a text-to-speech output or by a Refreshable Braille display. Student can easily navigate uCertify course using JAWS shortcut keys.

6. State of the Art Educator Tools

uCertify knows the importance of instructors and provide tools to help them do their job effectively. Instructors are able to clone and customize course. Do ability grouping. Create sections. Design grade scale and grade formula. Create and schedule assignments. Educators can also move a student from self-paced to mentor-guided to instructor-led mode in three clicks.

7. Award Winning Learning Platform (LMS)

uCertify has developed an award winning, highly interactive yet simple to use platform. The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. uCertify has won CODiE awards consecutively for last 3 years:

20141. Best Postsecondary Learning Solution

20151. Best Education Solution

2. Best Virtual Learning Solution

3. Best Student Assessment Solution

4. Best Postsecondary Learning Solution

5. Best Career and Workforce Readiness Solution

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6. Best Instructional Solution in Other Curriculum Areas

7. Best Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution

20161. Best Virtual Learning Solution

2. Best Education Cloud-based Solution

3. Best College and Career Readiness Solution

4. Best Corporate / Workforce Learning Solution

5. Best Postsecondary Learning Content Solution

6. Best Postsecondary LMS or Learning Platform

7. Best Learning Relationship Management Solution

8. Chapter & Lessons

uCertify brings these textbooks to life. It is full of interactive activities that keeps the learner engaged. uCertify brings all available learning resources for a topic in one place so that the learner can efficiently learn without going to multiple places. Challenge questions are also embedded in the chapters so learners can attempt those while they are learning about that particular topic. This helps them grasp the concepts better because they can go over it again right away which improves learning.

Learners can do Flashcards, Exercises, Quizzes and Labs related to each chapter. At the end of every lesson, uCertify courses guide the learners on the path they should follow.

Syllabus

Chapter 1: Taking Your First Steps with Word

Welcome to a New Word

The Office Look

Using the Word Start Screen

Touring the Word Screen

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Exploring the File Tab

Undoing and Redoing Actions

Setting Word Options

Getting Help

Exiting Word

Summary

Chapter 2: Diving Into Document Creation

Creating a Blank File

Creating a File from a Template

Opening an Existing File

Saving and File Formats

Compatibility with Previous Versions of Word

Choosing the Right Word View for the Task at Hand

Printing a Document

Achieving Attractive Documents with Styles

Constructing Documents Faster with Outlining

Cleaning Up Content with AutoCorrect

Summary

Chapter 3: Working with Document Style and Content

Reviewing the Ways You Can Format Text in Word

Applying Character Formatting

Structuring Text with Paragraph Formatting

Setting Off Text with Paragraph Decoration

Using the Styles Group to Apply Styles

Checking Spelling and Grammar

Summary

Chapter 4: Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Using the Clipboard

Adding and Moving Document Content with Cut, Copy, and Paste

Managing Pasting Options

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Searching with the Navigation Pane

Starting an Advanced Find from the Ribbon

Replacing Text via the Ribbon

Summary

Chapter 5: Cleaning Up with AutoCorrect and AutoFormat

Revisiting AutoCorrect

Using Quick Parts and Building Blocks

Inserting a Cover Page

Printing Envelopes and Labels Automatically

Printing an Envelope

Creating Labels

Creating PDF or XPS Output

Emailing a Document

Blogging

Summary

Chapter 6: Building Tables, Charts, and SmartArt to Show Data and Process

Getting a Quick Start with Quick Tables

Table Basics

Working with Table Layout and Design

Inserting SmartArt

Summary

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Chapter 7: Adding Pictures and WordArt to Highlight Information

Inserting Pictures from a File

Adding an Online Picture

Pasting or Snapping a Picture

Manipulating Inserted Pictures (and Other Graphics)

Creating WordArt

Arranging Pictures and Other Objects

Summary

Chapter 8: Adding Drop Caps, Text Boxes, Shapes, Symbols, and Equations

Adding a Drop Cap for Drama

Why Use Text Boxes?

Inserting a Text Box

Inserting a Shape

Adding a Basic Symbol

Inserting a Symbol from the Symbol Dialog Box

Summary

Chapter 9: Setting Up the Document with Sections, Headers/Footers, and Columns

Changing Basic Page Setup

Section Formatting

Headers and Footers Overview

Header and Footer Navigation and Design

Adding Header and Footer Material

Considering the Need for Columns

Changing the Number of Columns

Special Column Formatting

Summary

Chapter 10: Changing Other Page Features

Adding and Removing Page Borders

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Formatting the Page Background

Applying Page Background Colors, Patterns, Textures, or Pictures

Adding a Watermark

Removing Watermarks and Page Backgrounds

Working More Effectively with Themes

Working with Bookmarks

Hyperlinks

Summary

Chapter 11: Identifying the Contents and Terms in Your Document: TOCs, Captions, and Indexing

Automating Table of Contents Creation

Working with TOC Styles

Manually Creating a Table of Contents

Updating or Deleting a Table of Contents

Captions and Tables of Captioned Items

Indexing a Document

Footnotes and Endnotes Basics

Working with Footnote and Endnote Styling

Separators and Continuation

Making a Bibliography

Identifying the Sources for Your Bibliography

Editing Citations

Compiling the Citations into a Bibliography

Summary

Chapter 12: Data Documents and Mail Merge

Previewing the Mail Merge Process

Data Considerations

Reviewing Data File Formats

Choosing the Data Document Type

Attaching a Data Source

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Assembling a Merge Document

Mail Merge Pane/Wizard

Summary

Chapter 13: Managing Document Security, Comments, and Tracked Changes

Protection Types

Comments and Tracked Changes

Accepting and Rejecting Changes

Summary

Chapter 14: Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon

The QAT?

Changing the Buttons on the Quick Access Toolbar

The Customize Quick Access Toolbar Dialog Box

Making Changes to the Ribbon

Importing and Exporting Ribbon Customizations

Summary

Chapter 15: Word Options and Settings

Opening Word Options

General

Display (and Printing)

Proofing

Save

Language

Advanced

Summary

Chapter 16: Macros: Recording, Editing, and Using Them

Displaying Macro Tools and Creating a Macro

Managing Macros

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Understanding More about Macro Security

Macro Storage

Automatic Macros

Visual Basic for Applications: Quick and Dirty Answers

Summary

Chapter 17: Appendix A

Certification Objectives Map

Videos and How To

uCertify course includes videos to help understand concepts. It also includes How Tos that help learners in accomplishing certain tasks.

134VIDEOS

09:28HOURS

9. Practice Test

uCertify provides full length practice tests. These tests closely follow the exam objectives and are designed to simulate real exam conditions. Each course has a number of test sets consisting of hundreds of items to ensure that learners are prepared for the certification exam.

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32PRE-ASSESSMENTS

QUESTIONS

2FULL LENGTH TESTS

40POST-ASSESSMENTS

QUESTIONS

Features

Full Remediation

Each question comes with detailed remediation explaining not only why an answer option is correct but also why it is incorrect.

Unlimited Practice

Each test can be taken unlimited number of times until the learner feels they are prepared. Learner can review the test and read detailed remediation. Detailed test history is also available.

Learn, Test and Review Mode

Each test set comes with learn, test and review modes. In learn mode, learners will attempt a question and will get immediate feedback and complete remediation as they move on to the next question. In test mode, learners can take a timed test simulating the actual exam conditions. In review mode, learners can read through one item at a time without attempting it.

10.  Performance Based Labs

uCertify’s performance-based labs are simulators that provides virtual environment. Labs deliver hands on experience with minimal risk and thus replace expensive physical labs. uCertify Labs are cloud-based, device-enabled and can be easily integrated with an LMS. Features of uCertify labs:

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Provide hands-on experience in a safe, online environment

Labs simulate real world, hardware, software & CLI environment

Flexible and inexpensive alternative to physical Labs

Comes with well-organized component library for every task

Highly interactive - learn by doing

Explanations and remediation available

Videos on how to perform

Lab Tasks

Using word count in MS Word 2016

Exploring the File tab

Understanding undoing and redoing actions

Understanding Inserting versus Overtyping

Creating a file from a template

Saving document in MS Word 2016

Identifying file formats

Zooming document in MS Word 2016

Changing text to bold in MS Word 2016

Changing the font style and font size in MS Word 2016

Changing text color in MS Word 2016

Showing paragraph marks in MS Word 2016

Increasing line spacing in MS Word 2016

Creating a signature line in MS Word 2016

Inserting page breaks in MS Word 2016

Inserting bullets in MS Word 2016

Changing heading style in MS Word 2016

Using the cut and paste functions in MS Word 2016

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Understanding the Navigation pane

Finding and replacing text in MS Word 2016

Revisiting AutoCorrect

Inserting a cover page in MS Word 2016

Printing an envelope

Inserting table in MS Word 2016

Formatting table border in MS Word 2016

Inserting rows and columns in MS Word 2016

Drag the table style option to its description.

Modifying table design

Inserting SmartArt

Inserting picture from a file

Inserting an online picture

Understanding resizing, rotating, and cropping

Inserting a WordArt

Applying a drop cap in MS Word 2016

Inserting symbols in MS Word 2016

Inserting a shape

Identifying features of the Symbol dialog box

Changing basic page setup

Adding header in MS Word 2016

Inserting page numbers in MS Word 2016

Changing the number of columns

Breaking content into columns in MS Word 2016

Adding and removing page borders

Adding page color in MS Word 2016

Adding a custom text watermark in MS Word 2016

Identifying shortcut for inserting bookmark

Identifying Mail merge options

Identifying fields of the Rules feature

Understanding Track Changes

Understanding Accept and Reject Changes

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Understanding the Quick Access Toolbar

Identifying formatting marks

Identifying Macro file formats

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53PERFORMANCE BASED

LAB

93VIDEO TUTORIALS

46MINUTES

11. Post-Assessment

After completion of the uCertify course Post-Assessments are given to students and often used in conjunction with a Pre-Assessment to measure their achievement and the effectiveness of the exam.

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